Packaging

A we have seen with their other products, In Win puts quite a bit of effort into their packaging.  Lets take a look at the GD's box.

I would like to point out that the boss said I needed more pictures.  Taking that "light" suggestion, there are 45 pictures in this review :D.  Each of them is also a link to a full size view.

All right, the front of the box pictures the case, and a robot that looks similar enough to Mobile Suit Gundam that I wonder if they had to gets rights from Bandai.  The rear shows the case with a side open, an image of the VGA turbo cooling solution, and there picture stats at the bottom.  The use of images for key features makes me think of a motherboard box, not a tower, but it has worked well as a similar theme across the In Win lineup.

On the sides you have the features table displyed in the introduction, and some more images and callouts to primary features of the product.  These would be great if you could find one in a store!

Opening the box you can see the tower is packed like a glove.  It is wrapped in plastic, then nested floating in a thick plastic foam.  This isn't styrofoam, than can compress only a little bit and then apply pressure to the product, but instead a lighter almost bubble based foam that can take any hits UPS throws at it.

Inside the tower you find two bags, one with the owners manual, and the other with an assorment of screws, standoffs, PCI back plates, and an adapter.  At first I thought the back plates were spares, but then I looked at the back of the tower.  Not only are these the only back plates for the tower, but there are six of them and seven openings.  I guess the assumption is that the case is geared towards gamers, and most of them (knock on wood) will have a dedicated graphics card, eating at least on slot; but really, it would have cost what, three or fours cents more to put in the last plate?  The adapter was interesting though, taking a molex connector into a three pin fan connector.  That could be handy for all the included fans.

Just in case anyone was confused, In Win and I would like to clear something up.  Plastic bags are not toys.  They will get wrapped around your kids' (or dogs') heads, making them cry until they pass out. 

As ammusing as the image on the bag is, really your child could die, throw the bags away!